alien meaning
EN
[ˈeɪ.li.ən] 
US WAlien
- Alien may refer to:
- Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth
- Alien (law), a non-citizen inhabitant of a country
FR alien 
- NounPLaliensSUF-ien
- VerbSGaliensPRalieningPT, PPaliened
- AdjectiveCOMmore alienSUPmost alien
- Pertaining to an alien.
- Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
- alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores
- Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
- principles alien to our religion
- Pertaining to an alien.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane.
- The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.
- The aliens adopted human form in order to blend in.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of alien in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Adjectives
- fr alien
- en alienation
- en alienate
- en alienist
- en alienable
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "alien" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.